Not-E3 2024 Part 4: Xbox Games Showcase

Table of Contents

Guerilla Collective
Summer Game Fest
Devolver Direct
Wholesome Direct
Future Games Show
Xbox Games Showcase
PC Gaming Show
Ubisoft Forward

Xbox Games Showcase

One of the biggest showcases of this year’s Not-E3 is the Xbox Games Showcase this afternoon. They started off with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, a new Doom game called The Dark Ages, and State of Decay 3.

Then they showed a game I’ve been cautiously optimistic for, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (which used to be called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, but they retitled it). And it looks… uh… well, let’s just say it did not restore any of my optimism. In fact, it diminished it. It doesn’t look bad exactly, but the tone doesn’t feel like Dragon Age to me.

I thought it was going to be a spin-off until the title appeared.

But maybe it’s just a trailer thing and it’ll look more promising the next time they show it. Anyway, from there we got to see new expansions for Starfield and Fallout 76, and then a surprise new game that ended up being my favorite announcement of the show.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 looks like an intriguing dark fantasy game, so I was already interested even before I saw it actually has turn-based combat. It looks really cool, so I can’t wait to see more from it.

The game South of Midnight, shown next, looks like it could be interesting as well.

They showed the next expansion for World of Warcraft, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (the remake), and new stuff for Sea of Theives. You know, Snake Eater looks pretty great, so maybe someday I’ll actually get into those games since I have a bunch in my backlog.

Next up was Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Age of Mythology Retold, and the upcoming new Perfect Dark game. After that was a new Diablo IV expansion and then another look at the next Fable game, which actually looks a lot more interesting to me than when they showed it before.

They showed a game called Fragpunk, a cute (and possibly sad) mouse game called Winter Burrow, a game called Mixtape, and then Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Then they announced a game that took me by surprise: a new Life is Strange game, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, but the real surprising part is that it’s about Max again! I did not expect them to make a sequel following Max, and the fact that this one is a murder mystery on top of that has me more interested in the series than I have been for years.

The upcoming Indiana Jones game looks like it could be cool, although I’m not crazy about the gameplay. A mech game called Mecha Break, which was in one of the showcases the other day, was shown here as well.

The action RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers also looks pretty cool.

That was the last game in the showcase that interested me, since the rest – Avowed, Atomfall, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Stalker 2, and Gears of War: E-Day – aren’t really my sort of thing. They followed that with a longer look at Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, but I didn’t tune in.

There were definitely some great announcements at the Xbox Games Showcase, but I’m already looking ahead to hope the Nintendo Direct is soon. But while that’s up in the air, we’ve still got the PC Gaming Show tonight and Ubisoft Forward tomorrow. Stay tuned!